Product Description
When the Freeman family decided to restore a damaged creek in Washington's Olympic Peninsula—to transform it from a drainage ditch into a stream that could again nurture salmon—they knew the task would be formidable and the rewards plentiful.
In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott Freeman artfully blends his family's story with powerful universal lessons about how we can all live more constructive, fulfilling, and natural lives by engaging with the land rather than exploiting it. Equal parts heartfelt and empowering, this book explores how we can all make a difference one choice at a time.
In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott Freeman artfully blends his family's story with powerful universal lessons about how we can all live more constructive, fulfilling, and natural lives by engaging with the land rather than exploiting it. Equal parts heartfelt and empowering, this book explores how we can all make a difference one choice at a time.
Reviews/Praise
"As Aldo Leopold so eloquently expressed, healing the damage done to land can be a family's labor of love. In keeping with the Leopold legacy, Susan Leopold Freeman and Scott Freeman share with readers their family's evocative restoration journey. They weave together art and ecology as they reflect deeply on what it means today to live well and ethically on this earth."—Cristina Eisenberg, chief scientist at Earthwatch Institute, author of The Carnivore Way
"Saving Tarboo Creek is a beautiful mixture of lush description, ecological activism, and lifestyle advice, decorated throughout with watercolors of life at Tarboo Creek. If any book were to woo humanity back to the forest through sheer, earnest charm, it would be this one."—Foreword